Capella University and Southern New Hampshire University were the first to successfully take the plunge with direct assessment, an aggressive form of competency-based education that is untethered from ...

Through the partnership, Echo360 and Exxat support institutions in connecting learner engagement, skill practice, and competency assessment across academic and experiential learning environments with ...

In his Sept. 14 piece, “The Danger With Giving Students Feedback,” Alfie Kohn cites a 2020 Duke study which found that the traditional practice of grading can damage student motivation and performance ...

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Capella University, the first institution approved to offer federal financial aid for bachelor’s and master’s degrees through a unique direct assessment approach to ...

Western Governors University is pioneering a new, fast-growing model of education: Competency-based learning. In traditional classrooms, time is fixed and student learning varies. Schools operate ...

Some call for educational innovation. Others make it happen. No educational innovators, I suspect, have had a greater impact than Paul LeBlanc of Southern New Hampshire University or Scott Pulsipher ...

Increasingly, colleges and employers are looking for strategies that will allow them to adopt skills-based learning and assessment, either as part of microcredentialing or a corporate training and ...

The rollout of the Common Core State Standards has been bumpy, to say the least. Alaska, Nebraska, Texas, and Virginia rejected the common core from the outset. Oklahoma and Indiana have withdrawn ...

In this article, we argue in favor of a promising paradigm for training physicians: competency-based medical education (CBME). 10 CBME takes an outcomes-based approach in training learners to become ...

The traditional approach to formal education ties students to classrooms. Degrees are earned based on accumulated credits, a system developed in 1906 as an attempt to measure how much time a student ...

Educators may now be familiar with the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education’s (ACGME) recognition of competency-based medical education through their introduction of Milestones for ...

In a bold move towards educational reform, CBSE schools are now evaluating students in Classes VI to IX through a lens of conceptual understanding rather than mere memorization. This innovative ...